The 10 most important technology companies in the cloud computing field

Beijing Time April 24 news, in the near future, cloud computing will deeply affect people's daily life. By then, our personal files will be stored in the cloud, we will interact with our friends through cloud apps, and with cloud services, our tablets and smartphones will become more powerful, giving birth to a new generation of mobile terminals to replace netbooks. Even one day, the traditional PC will be replaced by such a mobile terminal.

For cloud computing services, many IT departments around the world will gradually turn from mistrust to generosity. But they don't spend a lot of money buying the apps and servers they need, but leasing them from companies that offer cloud services. Recently, Sai pinned listed 10 such companies, together to understand.

Before browsing the list, let's start with a brief look at what cloud computing is. Cloud computing includes 3 levels of service: SaaS Software as a service (Software-as-a-service), PAAs Platform as service (Platform-as-a-service) and IaaS infrastructure as service (Infrastructure-as-a-service).

Cloud computing allows you to get the services you want in the form of a monthly lease. As shown in the figure above, SaaS Software is a service that can provide leasing services for app applications; a PAAs platform is a service that provides leasing services other than app applications; IaaS infrastructure is a service that can provide hardware leasing services.

1. Amazon: The most important cloud computing service provider

Who is the most important cloud computing enterprise? The answer is only one-Amazon. Currently, Amazon is mainly concerned with IAAS infrastructure, the Services cloud computing market.

Amazon's cloud computing services offer a wide range of choices for customers from the cloud storage leasing service, which is only a few pence a month, to the IaaS infrastructure leasing service that rents 5000 dollars per hour.

Amazon is currently trying to get into the enterprise-level cloud computing market with a more secure firewall and a large hiring of salespeople. In the current situation, the powerful Amazon will not easily allow VMware, Citrix and OpenStack to carve out the enterprise-class cloud services market.

That's amazing! An online retailer can also make such a huge splash in the IT industry and profoundly change our daily lives, but Amazon does.

2.VMware: Deep in the clouds

Until this year, VMware really began to provide customers with cloud services. VMware provides technical support for cloud infrastructure deployment and implementation by the Vcloud products.

VMware is one of the largest providers of the cloud software market, with major competitors including Openstac and Citrix, which are managed by IBM, Rackspace and HP Giants.

This March, VMware announced that it would publish its own public cloud (Cloud) model. This is a very interesting choice because, according to VMware, there are more than 200 cloud service providers deploying and implementing their cloud infrastructure through Vcloud products, such as Verizon and CSC. As a result, VMware will have to compete with its Vcloud product customers Verizon and CSC in the public cloud arena.

3. Microsoft, set a benchmark on its own turf

Microsoft also has its own cloud platform strategy windows Azure.

Microsoft Windows Azure is a PAAs platform that serves as a cloud computing platform that enables developers to write apps using Microsoft's code tools. Recently, Microsoft announced that Windows Azure provides IaaS (infrastructure services) technical support to successfully enter the IaaS domain. Microsoft even allowed customers to run Linux operating systems on their Azure cloud platform and promised that future azure would be more competitive in terms of price than Amazon's.

In addition, Microsoft offers customers a wide range of commercial-level app applications, from SQL Server databases to Microsoft Office 365, covering almost all cloud computing products through Windows Azure cloud platform.

4.salesforce.com, tell you why companies need cloud computing

In a way, Salesforce.com is almost equivalent to cloud computing. Salesforce.com's success tells us that every family needs SaaS software as a service.

In 2012, Salesforce.com spent $1 billion on acquisitions of two social media marketing companies, Radian6 and Buddy Media, which made Salesforce.com successfully enter the new business-marketing Cloud (Marketing Cloud). Thereafter, in order to strengthen and expand the scope of business, Salesforce.com 1 billion dollars for other acquisitions.

In addition, the 2010-year $212 million acquisition of the Ruby Platform service website Heroku,salesforce.com also became a well-known PAAs platform as a service cloud provider.

5. Google: Born for the Cloud

Last year, Google began to really do its part in cloud computing by posting an important IaaS platform, the service platform,--compute Engine.

In fact, Google has begun to dabble in cloud computing, such as its most well-known PAAs platform, the service offerings Google App engine and Google BigQuery, which mainly provide Google Cloud storage services, a large data cloud application Web service, You can have developers use Google's architecture to run SQL statements to operate on super large databases.

In addition, Google also has a client-oriented and enterprise-class cloud applications platform, such as Google Drive and Google Apps, its Chrome OS operating system spawned Chromebook and Chromebox and other PC devices, These PC devices can also run a variety of app apps from Google's cloud platform.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)